Title
Customer Churn Prediction in Telecommunication Industry: With and without Counter-Example
Abstract
The customer churn is a crucial activity in the competitive and rapidly growing telecommunication industry. Due to the high cost of acquiring a new customer, customer churn prediction is one of the greatest importance for project managers. It is important to forecast customer churn behavior in order to retain those customers that will churn or possibly may churn. This study is another attempt which makes use of rough set theory as one-class classifier and multi-class classifier to reveal the trade-off in the selection of an effective classification model for customer churn prediction. Experiments were performed to explore the performance of four different rule generation algorithms (i.e. Exhaustive, genetic, covering and LEM2). It is observed that rough set as one-class classifier and multi-class classifier based on genetic algorithm yields more suitable performance out of four rule generation algorithms. Furthermore, by applying the proposed techniques (i.e. Rough sets as one-class and multi-class classifiers) on publicly available dataset, the results show that rough set as a multi-class classifier provides more accurate results for binary/multi-class classification problems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ENIC.2014.29
MICAI (2)
Keywords
Field
DocType
rough set theory,one-class & multi-class classifications, churn prediction, rough set theory,multiclass classifier,rule generation algorithms,churn prediction,multiclass classification problems,project managers,multi-class classifications,genetic algorithm,genetic algorithms,effective classification model,one-class classifier,telecommunication industry,binary classification problems,one-class &amp,customer churn prediction
Computer science,Rough set,Artificial intelligence,Counterexample,Classifier (linguistics),Machine learning,Genetic algorithm,Binary number
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8857
0302-9743
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.71
22
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Adnan Amin1426.27
Changez Khan2161.86
Imtiaz Ali3101.11
Sajid Anwar418419.96